188 Assembly Proceedings, November 1-December 6, 1766.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 53

Nov. 26

Wednesday, November 26.
The House met.
All appeared as Yesterday, except H. Hollyday, Esq
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock.

Post Meridiem.
The House met.
M.^r Tyler appeared in the House.
M.^r Allen has Leave of Absence.

M^r Worthington brings in, and delivers to M^r Speaker the fol-
lowing Report, Viz
Maryland, ss.

At a Committee of both Houses of Assembly appointed to inspect
the Office and Proceedings of the Commissioners for emitting Bills
of Credit, [This report is printed in full in the Upper House Journal,
pp. 115-118.]

p. 466

Which was read the first Time, and Ordered to lye on the Table.

The following Resolves, Viz.^t
This House taking into their most serious Consideration, the
noble and spirited Conduct of the Right Honourable William Pitt,
now Earl of Chatham, and the Right Honourable Charles Pratt,
Lord Cambden, late Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and
now Lord High Chancellor of England, in defending and support--
ing the Rights and Liberties of their fellow Subjects in general,
and animated by the most lively Sense of their important Services
to the united Interests of Great Britain, and her Colonies, in a late
critical and alarming Juncture, think themselves indispensibly ob-
liged to transmit to Posterity the grateful Sentiments they entertain
of the inflexible Integrity, and conspicuous Abilities of those shining
Ornaments of their Country, who, uninfluenced by narrow Views,
from local Attachments, have, in the genuine Spirit of true Patriots,
and faithful Guardians of the Common Weal, extended their Re-
gards to the comprehensive Object of the whole British Empire.
As a Monument therefore, of the Virtues of those illustrious Per-
sonages, and a lasting Testimony of the Gratitude of the Freemen
of Maryland, this House hath unanimously Resolved, That a suffi-
cient Sum of Public Money be appropriated to purchase an elegant
Marble Statue of the said Earl of Chatham, to be set up in such
Place within the City of Annapolis, as the Lower House of Assembly
shall direct: That the said Lord Cambden be requested, to permit
his Picture to be taken from the Life, by some eminent Hand, at
the Expence of this Province, to be placed in the Provincial Court.
And, that Two thousand two hundred and fifty Dollars of the
Bills of Credit, to be emitted, be laid out in Bills of Exchange by
the Commissioners, and by them remitted to the Trustees, residing in